Counterfeit Components

With electronic components becoming more expensive, obsolete, scarce or hard to find, it is an unfortunate reality that such a condition can be exploited by unscrupulous individuals who deal in counterfeit components.

Nordson DAGE's digital X-ray inspection system provide high magnification at oblique views and with large greyscale sensitivity to quickly and easily non-destructively see inside the suspect packages.

However carefully your supply chain is managed, the realities of providing customers with on-time delivery, combined with the ease of internet searches, can lead you, or your suppliers, into the grey market. Counterfeiting issues are not just limited to expensive or exotic components, where relatively high unit cost would appear to be highly attractive to the criminal element. Counterfeiting often exists for long lead-time or obsolete devices with unit values below $10 per unit. These low value devices are arguably far more dangerous to the production quality of board level assemblers, with tremendous risk and negative impact to their business reputation, in addition to the cost of identifying assembly problems and doing the follow-on rework and repair.

Nordson DAGE's nano-focus X-ray inspection system provide high magnification at oblique views and with large greyscale sensitivity to quickly and easily non-destructively see inside the suspect packages. By taking images of known good samples that clearly indicate the correct wiring and sub-assembly alignment within the packages then production operators and incoming inspectors can quickly compare these to suspect devices.

Featured Product

Nordson DAGE's Flagship system. Featuring the all new XiDAT 3 detector and the award winning 3rd generation nano-focus Nordson DAGE NT tube. The system also benefits from active X-ray image stabilisation, easy to use point and click software and 70 degree oblique angle views for 360 degrees around any point in the entire inspection area. These unique features make the system ideally placed for all PCB and semiconductor applications